The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. A short explanation of relists is available here. The Supreme Court continues to make ...

Opinion: Southwestern Law's Hila Keren writes that the Supreme Court's Skrmetti decision leaves questions about due process ...

Attorney General Gentner Drummond and Public Safety Commissioner Tim Tipton are defendants in the federal lawsuit targeting a ...

Powerful political allies get a pass, while dissenters are crushed with massive fines. This isn’t a flaw in the system—it’s ...

The Supreme Court on Wednesday delivered a substantial blow to transgender-rights advocates in upholding a 2023 Tennessee law ...

Andrew Johnson famously freed his slaves on Aug. 8, 1863, but it would be another 18 months before Tennessee freed enslaved ...

But the 8th Amendment doesn’t apply to Indiana, or any other state. The Supreme Court said in 1833 that the Bill of Rights only protects against abuses by the federal government — not by ...

The constitutionality of the Eighth Amendment—specifically, its provisions regarding the decentralisation of the High Court—was challenged in the famous Eighth Amendment Case.

In recent years, Eighth Amendment doctrine has been “so stripped down” that “even egregious, morally indefensible treatment can easily pass constitutional muster,” Sharon Dolovich, a law ...

The Eighth Amendment’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment prohibits this course of action. White House lawyers should read the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Trop v.

The Eighth Amendment, which bars "cruel and unusual punishments," was intended by the founders as a bulwark against prisoner abuse. Over the years it came to mean any treatment that "shocked the ...